October 1966: Mimeographed flyer: for International Times launch party at London’s Roundhouse.

it1 Oct 14 - 27 1966: Death of Andre Breton –obituary by Jean-Jaques Lebel; Yoko Ono’s ‘Unfinished Paintings and Objects’ notice for show at Indica Gallery, 102 Southampton Row (where she met John Lennon etc.); Adrian Mitchell poem- ‘Make or Break’ written for Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of US, a play about Vietnam, with Glenda Jackson; Report on the Warsaw International Festival of Music & portrait of Penderecki; Bob Cobbing’s Group H exhibition; Destruction In Art Symposium (DIAS) ‘Two views of DIAS’ - Jay Landesman and Tony Cox; a review of ‘She’ –Woman as Cathedral, a ninety-foot-long woman built by Nikki de Saint Phsille, Jean Tinguely and Olof Ultvedt in the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art; for Indica Gallery; Simon Vinkenoog on Provo in Amsterdam; report on Timothy Leary’s Spiritual Stage show from Bubu in New York; China: by Alex Gross; Alone in Swinging London - cartoon strip ‘featuring Clifton de Berry [who later became Seedy Bee] & Vera Groin in Glorious Sphinctovision’, by Jeff Nuttall; Peter Asher’s pop column‘Pop.. Pop.. Ouch’ by ‘Millionaire’ – includes a report of a Rolling Stones concert at the Albert Hall; LSD; Dope prices; “What’s Happening’” listings reveal ‘Pink Floyd Mix Media Show’ at the London Free School, All Saints Hall; Bert Jansch at St. Pancras Town Hall; Roland Kirk at Ronnie Scott’s; Karma boutique opens; - 1s; 12pp

it2 Oct 31 – Nov 13 1966: Yoko Ono; Report on the IT launch party at The Roundhouse - Pink Floyd / Soft Machine / Paul McCartney etc; Ezra Pound’s unpublished wartime broadcasts on Radio Rome containing his highly controversial views. Led to complaints from his estate in IT 3.; The Living Theatre’s ‘Frankenstein’ script; William Burroughs’ film script ‘Towers Open Fire’; Robert Fraser Gallery; Open letter from Peter Brook (of the RSC) to Charles Mairowitz, followed by his reply; Morton Feldman; ‘Man of Grass’ - George Andrews, see IT 3 for comment on this drug piece; Interpot Report No 3; Underground Film Festival Supplement - run-down of underground movies of the time including Emile de Antonio, Ray Durgnat, Andrew Meyer and Dutch Provo films and London Film Makers Co-Op; Andrew Meyer - US filmmaker; Kim Fowley – ‘Portrait of a Freak’; Censorship and/or Pornography; cartoon strip by Jeff Nuttall (Sodall), Berlin’s Living Theatre; Stockholm's Fylkingen

PROJECT SIGMA (London: Dec. 1966). Broadside sheet featuring the text of "The Invisible Generation", and a photograph by Antony Balch of William Burroughs on the telephone. An offset reprint from International Times #3, produced and distributed by International Times after Trocchi's request for a contribution from Burroughs to his Sigma Portfolio was not forthcoming.

it6 16 - 29 Jan 1967: William Burroughs "The Invisible Generation (Continued)", the second appearance of this text (following the IT poster half-issue no.5.5).; Norman Mailer on Vietnam War ; Allen Ginsberg; Cerebral Cortex. Miles' Paul McCartney interview, transcribed from a taped conversation in which they discuss fame, spirituality, drugs, and electronic music (considered to be the first rock interview in IT, though preceded by the self-publicising Kim Fowley interview, "Portrait of a Freak" in issue no.2); ads for Granny Takes A Trip, Hung On You, and UFO club.

it13 May 19 - June 2 1967: - George Harrison Interview by Miles; Announcement of Monterey Pop Festival; ad for My White Bicycle by Tomorrow withdrawn and redesigned by Jacob and the Coloured Coat; Letter from John Peel describing reason for USA Extradition and offering services...; The Doors; Da Capo; Amsterdam Provos; Pink Floyd; Jeff Nuttall writes on Art; Report of the benefit at Alexandra Palace on 29th April. Release of Sgt Pepper announced; Drugs in school – report; Marvel Comics – “…hard to get (their UK distributors having gone bankrupt)”. ‘Michael X words’; ‘Provo Precepts’ by Ramond Durgnat. – “Raves are making the headlines all right. But is British protest getting stuck in a psychedelic rut?” etc.; Games For May; Happening 44 –new venue; Electric Garden ad;

it14 June 2 1967: – “All Human Life For Sale”; Published following the jail sentence of John 'Hoppy' Hopkins Editor of I.T. , creator of the UFO venue. It was in production at the time of the case and rapid alterations were made to the front cover and editorial at the last minute: Sgt Pepper's, Beatles full page Ad; Pink Floyd at UFO club; Michael X paranoia; J.S.McCullogh, ‘Story of a Normal Man’; The Who by Mick Farren; An Environmental Pace by Simon Vinkenoog; Yoko Ono letter; Column of Dreams by George Andrews; Magic Square by David Kimchi; Free Radio rally in Trafalgar Square - outlawing the first off-shore radio pirates; run down on current light shows and their origins, rare interview with Andy Warhol who was visiting London; news from New York and India; Smoke-in at Hyde Park, sightings of UFOs, interview with Monica Sjoo-Trickey the Swedish activist and ‘pornographic’ painter, promo for Monterey International Pop Festival; Jeff Nuttall cartoon; review of Hendrix first album 'Are You Experienced'; review of The Move at UFO’; Love - the Da Capo album (Arthur Lee); Netherlands Dance Theatre; Mick Farren, ‘Pop in the Police State’.

it14.5: ‘Summer Sadness for John Hopkins’ - Hopkins’s Bust half-issue; ‘Hapshash and the Coloured Coat’ poster by Michael English

it14.75: poster by Sue Miles of flower springing from box “Free Hoppy”.

–“Once we thought to love more than one person was immoral, today it would be unthinkable to love only two..”

across top gutters: “The Way to resumption is to resume/ Arnold Wesker what have you done? / Wayland Young What Are You Doing? / There Is No Darkness Save Ignorance / Let Them Eat Fallacies / Roy Jenkins What Will You Do? / Lord Goodman What Did You Do? / One Root In The Equities, One in Acumen / Happy Treason..”

it19 Oct 5 - 20 1967: First Birthday issue. “Centres and Lines of the Latent Power in Britain” by John Michell; Aleister Crowley – the proto-hippie; Alex Trocchi; Continuous Drawing from London to Amsterdam; LSD gene damage & acid report; Alex Trocchi; Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow ad, and Yoko Ono at Lisson Gallery ad; ad for Jimi Hendrix / Arthur Brown at the Saville Theatre, ad for Nexus Film Festival at Royal Festival Hall; John Peel’s Perfumed Garden; Song For International Times –Kevin Ayers; IT means… quotes;
Author Leslie Fielder busted by the police; Ad for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, John's Children, Crying Shame and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown at the Saville; Ad for the Art's Lab; Ad for Denny Laine and the Knack, Soft Machine, Fairport Convention, Vanilla Fudge at UFO; Hieronymus Bosch; Reader responses on articles on Aleister Crowley in IT 17 and It 18; Continuous painting from Amsterdam to London; Nothing Hill Festival; Ad for Social Deviants, Sensory Amarda, Doctor K's Blues Band, South East Blues Band, Louise and Tintern Abbey at Happening 44; 20 pp.

“International Times is a mosaic of an inverted form of the old myths of the Holy Grail….An audacious union of masked words…The unchaining of natural forces…An ability to initiate the proposed dialogue…A seducer of the imagination…The persuasive equivalent of nuclear weapons. Not the effect of chance but proof of necessity…We need more street sellers in Amsterdam, in Berlin, in Paris, in Stockholm,in Rome, in Madrid, in Mexico City, in Washington DC etc. etc. England can only be regenerated as part of a world evolutionary process……” Page top manifestos: Bill Levy.

it23 Jan 5 - 19 1968: Other Scenes by John Wilcock, interview with Henry Irving- described as 'English Pornographer', Perfumed Garden - page feature by John Peel ; 1850 BC. by John Michell - Britain in Megalithic times as the spiritual centre of the world..; centre page-poster as full-page illustration associating the coming of the Millennium with the coming of the Messiah; pic of Country Joe & the Fish & Jimi Hendrix in concert at the Roundhouse & Olympia; review of The Doors Strange Days album; soundtrack of Ian Sommerville’s film on William Burroughs & Brion Gysin’s 'Cut Ups'; cartoon strip - 'Astounding Adventures of Ron Wetlegge', manifesto of Sinclair Eustace (parliamentary candidate), ‘The British State: an outline of necessary reforms’; Advance notice of a free university for London, and a visit by Captain Beefheart; Announcement First European Pop Festival Rome; Henry Irving – Pornographer; 1850 B.C. by John Mitchell; - 16 pp

“Proper recognition of being is wonderment / international wonderment/congress of the fourth age/ideas are moving around/Marxism is not an ism....it’s a wasm / Interstellar Times witnesses/assaults Eternity/Grace is dancing through dust with the irrevocable mad/International Times/knowing and knowing there is nothing to know/rise and flourish for all your worth (it is all your worth) / shine, radiate joy, bliss and whoopee vibrations/paradise feels like the radiance released by a radiant person/the Daily Press is largely responsible for the dreary events they describe/the economic pre-requisite of an ideology/explains its material basis but not its irrational core/all evidence is finally sensory/friendly is to be nice to all in your life.” – In & around gutters of #23

it26 Feb 16 - 29 1968: ‘appropriated’ International Situationist strip on cover: words Raoul Vaneigem; graphic Andre Bertram. Allen Ginsberg: ‘The Maharishi and Me’; The Free University Alexander Trocchi, Robert Tasher and Harold Norse on the ‘Anti-University’; Family Dog and Middle Earth ads, J.G. Ballard’s poem - Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan; International reports including from Sweden, Manila, New York, Germany; Centre-spread ‘IT Supports Dick Gregory for president of the USA’; A page of letters about censorship, from Tom Maschler, John Calder, Marion Boyars and Charles Marowitz; John Peel’s ‘Perfumed Garden’ column; Short interview with Captain Beefheart.

“International times is a fact of life*woven in order as cords on a loom*all astute men can see IT encircling, with splendour to trace out and bind together with the sun under it all as lacquer in sunlight*to unscrew the inscrutable***If you mind your own business they (the phonies) will fade out before they have to be druv**Get rid of flimsy foundations Of heaven earth and things without shadows***cut the cackle* and do not believe’ em* IT observes the weather, hears thunder seeks to include, free from all possessiveness in affections* Keep mind on the root..*Take care of the body as an implement; it is useful*to shield you from floods**and rascality*shallow prides spend their time slanting rumours keeping things off center and blabber-mouth**Courage only comes*when one knows to what extent, courage is universal*the participant is the best observer*what is worth knowing cannot be taught**Let the phallus perceive its aim***Looking at the sky is leading us to new patterns of thought:::Approaching AD., A.M – Fitoscreenic-Hermes IYS***If IT never publishes anything save what is already understood the field of understanding will never be extended***International Times prefers to flow*with an astonishing number of apparition successes***International Time - a finality that binds things together by communication***IT will bring luck out of the air*Support our advertisers, they support us.” – run along top gutters of IT 27

it29 April 19 – May 2 1968: Cover by Francis Vasseur. Interview with Rudi Dutschke the German revolutionary, before his attempted assassination; Victory Thru Vegetables by Greg Sams; ‘UFO is Dead’ – an analysis of the demise of the venue of that name including graphic display of the origin of user; a lot about London’s ARTS LAB, especially film, including interviews, opinion etc...Open letter to Tariq Ali from John Hopkins; letter to IT from Mick Farren; Ads for Captain Beefheart, The Deviants, Uriel, Brian Auger Trinity with Julie Driscoll, Audience, Tintagel, Ike and Tina Turner, Thackeray, Owen Russell Blues Band, Fairport Convention, Tangerine Slyde, Ginger Johnson, Soft Machine, People Show, King Ida's Watch Chain and Memphis Leather at Middle Earth.

it34 June 28 – July 11 1968: Final City – a feature from the San Francisco Oracle (one of the very first underground newspapers); Hornsey College of Art / London School of Economics student unrest - ‘Cosmocracy’ – article “written as a result of a conversation in the IT office… a few hours before a group of LSE and other students were due to come and occupy the IT building”. Apple talent Ad (a John Lennon Drawing) -Quarter Page. Reviews of the United States of America (band), Mick Farren’s Social Deviants; Inter-Action’s Ambiance lunch-hour theatre; Hermine Demoriane – Paris report; Mothers of Invention; Small Faces; John Coltrane; Miles Davis; The Nice "America"(half page ad - members holding children with the faces of John and Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King); SOMA and Legalise Pot Rally in Hyde Park by Steve Abrams; Incredible String Band in The Albert Hall on the Saturday followed by Morning Raga on Sunday Morning...Pink Floyd free in Hyde Park in the Afternoon and The Nice in concert in the Evening. (Blackhill Enterprises.-Half Page Week-end Ticket-£2.00) Pyramid Perspectives; Copenhagen news - 20 pp

“At Hornsey a microcosm of society changed totally, the people who took over had to challenge the inner organisation, to change its relationships with the outside world, and to change themselves. Revolution of thought and feeling is the only permanent revolution. A structure can only work so long as it grows out of feeling. The only magic wand was our imagination. Anyone, anywhere, can create this revolution.
‘Hornsey—The Flower Breaks the Concrete’- Written shortly after the student ‘takeover’ at the Hornsey College of Art.

it35 July 12 - 25 1968: Black Panthers and the trial of Huey P Newton; Revolutionary Politics in France; John Osborne; Letter from John Lennon to Coventry Cathedral; LSD; John Peel’s Perfumed Garden; A pamphlet by Salvador Dali, distributed on the streets of Paris during the May ’68 revolution; Nude Demos; Message of the Pyramids; Politics of the Imagination; Midsummer Raga; Review of Jean Luc Godard’s film ‘Weekend’ by Joel W. Finler; review of John Lennon exhibition ‘To Yoko’; Long poem (centre spread) ‘Paradise Now’ by Julian Beck, Living Theatre; Tribe Time part 3; Lumpy Gravy – Zappa review

Copyright IT. (Printing, Publishing & Promotions Ltd.)

it36 July 26 – Aug 8 1968: Castro Cover; “Happy Birthday Revolution”; Digger energy; Head Quest - poster centrefold "Happy Revolution Birthday" which hails the continued success of the Cuban Revolution in a montage that includes Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, the Cuban flag and the happy smiling faces of those living in the Socialist paradise... Digger Manifesto entitled "Life Is Energy Is Free" - an unsigned piece of utopian writing ;review of William Burroughs The Soft Machine; by Report of a trip to Kathmandu; Exorcism of Angst; Articles about psychiatry, ‘energy’, Henry Moore sculpture; review of the Beatles film The Yellow Submarine;

it38 Aug 23 - Sep 5 1968: Explanation that although IT is still to be published by IT Workers’ Co-operative, the new registered name of Its publisher is now Knullar, standing for Karmic Neo-Universal League for Liberty And Reality. “Before anyone starts hearing rumours....this outfit is none other than IT worker’s C0-op it is only the name that has been emasculated on its journey through the blood vessels of the bureaucracy.”
Cover is a reproduction of a seditious handbill offering a "reward for information leading to the apprehension of Jesus Christ - Wanted for Sedition - Criminal Anarchy - Vagrancy and conspiring to overthrow the established government." Full page Perfumed Garden column from John Peel; extract from a speech given by Fidel Castro in the "Year of the Heroic Guerilla"; The Fragmented Philosophy by Miles; Police Theatre; pivotal letter ‘from an over 30’ by Geoffrey Ashe; Apple ad; John Peel; Jeff Nuttall letter*; Translation of a broadsheet manifesto addressed to a French theatre fesival (Avignon). Poem by Brian Patten, “The Many Faced Creature”; *back page ad from Effective Communications Arts Limited – an IT mail order poster etc. initiative

it40 Sep 20 - Oct 3 1968: cover is a "transcendental sound vibration" or mantra designed by Yamuna Devi Dasi; ‘Underground Construction’ - Emmanuel Petrakis; “Love and Fornication”, 3-part series – Theodore Faithfull (Marianne’s father..); Principal Edwards Magic Theatre design centre spread; The Fugs; report from Melbourne, Australia; Jefferson Airplane; Apple Blossoms -Reviews Of The First Four Singles including Hey Jude; "Black Power or Death" an excerpted speech by Obi Egbuna of Britain's Black Panthers who was "charged in a London court with [uttering] a writing threatening to murder police officers"; back cover features a cartoon exhorting the use of psychedelics "Play with your cells and become your own food!" .

it42 Oct 18 – 31 1968: Cover: IT girl with Birthday cake (2nd anniversary; variant covers - one version is yellow and purple and one is in blue and orange); John Peel’s Perfumed Garden; review of Leary’s High Priest; South Africa; The Birth of Autonome – a report from Zurich; New York Trauma; review of Frank Zappa; Presidential elections; feature: From Rock to Acid Rock; Incredible String Band at Royal Albert Hall; Phil Ochs; The Fugs; The Ballad of Ho Chang - an anti-Vietnam war piece; Pete Stansill looks back from the second anniversary of IT; Birth of the autonomes in Zurich, Switzerland after the Jimi Hendrix concert that ended in a riot; New York trauma; Vietnam; Miles on Frank Zappa's Ruben and the Jets; Vietnam; Ads for Jon Hiseman's Colosseum and the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation at Klooks Kleek, Alexis Korner Blues Band, Roy Harper, Pete Brown, Deviants, Action, Ron Geesin at Porchester Halls, Junior Eyes, Sleepy and Family at the Country Club, Tiny Tim with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Joe Cocker and Peter Sarsted at the Royal Albert Hall. Blue Cheer, Elderberry Clinic, Pink Floyd and Fox at Middle Earth; Pigs and Presidents II; Ad for Third Ear Band, David Bowie, Doris Henderson, George Smith, Mike Vernon, Pegasus Blues, Mimi & Mouse, Simon Stable & Pete Drummond on Plastic Dream Machine at Time Out ; Free Bank Benefit at the Country Club

it51 Feb 28 - March 13 1969: Death of Meher Baba; Paris and LSE riots; “Police Universe Panic Page”; Drawings of Laurel & Hardy under THC... "Paris: Prison As Media" by Felix Scorpio; ’Pollution’ by Miles in New York; the poem Assassination Raga by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with pictures of Sirhan Sirhan and references to the Bobby Kennedy killing; Learning Cannabis by Adam Parker-Rhodes plus a transcript of the trial of Fritz Teufel and Rainer Langhans (later linked to the Baader-Meinhof Red Army Faction) after they were indicted on charges of incitement after producing a leaflet in which "People were asked to tick the building they would most like to see burned - like the house of Springer, America House, the house of Gunter Grass - and return the questionnaire to the Kommune"; Miles in New York; ‘The Fool’ record ad..; The Alchemic 3rd Ear Band; Excerpts from ‘Revolution For the Hell of It” by Abbie Hoffman.

it52 March 14 - 27 1969: Politics V Pleasure: Will We Ever Transcend Both? London School of Non-Violence; A centre page spread about squatting “Squatters Re-people Emptiness” The cover also features a striking image of a naked interracial embrace which subsequently caused a newspaper vendor to be prosecuted for displaying an obscene image

The famous Drury Lane Arts Lab Squat; The Amsterdam scene with e.g. Fantasio and Paradiso; London School of non-violence; Apple Theatre; Ads for Edgar Broughton, Roy Harper, Circus and Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments at the Country Club and for Country Joe McDonald, The Liverpool Scene at the Magic Village; Picture of the Chambers Brothers; Ad for Junior's Eyes, Aardvark, Chicken Shack, Track, The End and Led Zeppelin at Klooks Kleek; Ad for Eclection, The Ax and John Hiseman's Colliseum at Frax Club; Ad for The Groundhogs and Rare Amber at The Resurrection Club; Arts Lab squat; Ad for Eclection, Timebox, Dr K's Blues Band, Steve Miller's Delivery, Ron Geesin, Bridget St. John, Forest and Gerry Shore at Bedford College -24pp

“I was busted for selling International Times (the one with two innocently nude people on the cover) at Notting Hill tube station in '68 and went to court charged with peddling an indecent publication and was remanded pending the trial.

I was sent to some god awful place in Essex where I was treated like a leper because of the obscenity tag, and I was just a harmless, penniless hippy. I got rapidly fed up with the whole scene and absconded…god knows what happened at the trial.

Some years later I was hitching in the West Country and I was checked out by the local constabulary (bless their hearts) and the failure to attend the trial was discovered via the criminal records department - I was once again remanded (only for a few hours this time) until it was discovered that the arresting officer had subsequently died and they could no longer press a charge against me. Their faces were pictures of wrath when they realized that they had to release this arch pornographer who even expressed his sorrow at the demise of the officer..

I was back on the road at about 4.am, freezing cold and mightily pissed off at IT - the staff of which did absolutely sweet FA to aid me in my initial predicament of the arrest and detention. I think that neither IT nor the law comes out of this story very well.

(“THE IT SENSORIUM: 2.5 years of Depravity and Corruption Anthologised; approaching Soon, smell some today..”) This would become the compilation book ‘Some of IT’

it57 May 23 – June 6 1969: The ‘lost’ issue... The front page has a box headed SABOTAGE – confirming that Photoprinters (Peterborough) Ltd. refused to print this issue at the last minute causing very limited circulation...
‘Whose side are you on?’ - LSE dispute; Enoch Powell – a rant; Jerry Cornelius: The English Assassin; interview with Pete Townsend on release of Tommy; Procul Harum, Fairport Convention; 'Tactics of De-conditioning - William Burroughs speaks', NCC; Trudy cartoon strip, The Living Theatre

it58 June 13 -28 1969: Latin America – military takeover; The Peoples Park, Berkeley, California; Alex Trochi – Watch That Gnome; The adventures of Jerry Cornelius, cartoon strip based on Michael Moorcock; Frank Zappa versus the Incredible Hulk (at the LSE where he mystified the audience by showing them his unfinished film 'Burnt Weeny Sandwich’ and got a hostile response..); centre page spread on Pete Townsend on Tommy, part two;; King Crimson interview; The £SD of Underground Rock; ‘Trudy’ – comic strip; Improve your Sex Life; ads for Oz, East of Eden, Strawbs, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and most interestingly, The Pop Proms advert at .Albert Hall

it59 July 4 - 17 1969: also tagged Insanity Times and features an extensive interview with R.D. Laing discussing modern psychiatry, Wilhelm Reich, meditation and the use of psychogenic drugs etc over two pages. Interview with Mick Jagger where he talks about Black Power, violence, Andrew Loog-Oldham etc; half- page ad - Fairport Convention; full page- Family plus The Space Music Of Sun Ra and His Space Arkestra article articles on Sun Ra and Michael Moorcock. Revolution: The Method of Revelation; Full page ad for Plastic Ono Band, "Give Peace a Chance"; Edward’s Music commix; Picture of dying James R. Rector with poem by Michael McClure at the People Park's riots in Berkeley; Dianetics; Poem by John Esam; Interview with Family; Sun Ra and his Space Arkestra; Ad for Blodwyn Pig and The Liverpool Scene at Farx; Ad for Third Ear Band, Quintessence, Gypsy, Pink Cheeks and Jeff Dexter at the Roundhouse; Ad for Cliff Charles, Colin Smith, Sam Apple Pie (Chicken Shack coming) at The Resurrection Club; William Burroughs (Nova Expert) hits town with 2 pictures; Announcement of free Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park; Jerry Cornelius III, a comic by Mal Dean & Michael Moorcock; Poem by William Blake on the back cover. 28pp.

it60 July 18 - 31 1969: Moon IT: Moon Landing cover by Mike McInnerney; Brian Jones obituary; Tim Leary; Doors film “A Feast of Friends; Stones In Hyde Park: picture of Brian Jones with Shelley’s Elegy on the Death of John Keats.; Eric Mottram and his talk “This is simply an attempt to put together into a single field of mobile information sources which go to make up the possible model of the life within the cosmos on earth” ; a special on Free Radio, which discusses the state of play with pirate stations and the state’s control of the airwaves’; The Real John Mayall”; Jerry Cornelius graphic strip; half page Dandelion Records advert with a picture of the young John Peel with the heading “John Peel Is A Liar!” + “An incident which occurred over the IT anthology,,,”

it61 Aug 1 - 14 1969: “All words and visuals in this issue are anonymous because all images belong not to the author alone but to the whole meta-cosmic community; what I kept I lost; what I had I spent; what I gave I kept...”...and more. The reader as UFO; ‘Morocco Trance: detonate memory trace’ Master Musicians/Hassan I Sabbah; Latin American scene; Cosmic Neutron Stars & Quasar Squadrons Signal Forth The Glorious; President of the United States: This is the way to go to Mars, Robot Brains Take Over; 1850 BC revisited; Some of IT advert ;Jerry Cornelius graphic novella; Plug and Socket music supplement: Quintessence; Pete Jenner letter re. free concerts; Jefferson Airplane : 2-page interview; Jethro Tull; Record Co.: Own Up!

International Free Press November 1st 1969: –‘A Cosmic Caper’. One Issue published 12ppA page explaining the incident at Endell Street on October 13th entitled ‘The Underground Surfaces’; claims of support declared by ex-editors Bill Levy, Courtney Tulloch., Jack Henry Moore and Jim Haynes; Abbie Hoffman & Tuli Kupferberg (The Fugs): The Fist and The Flowers – a transcribed conversation; Magic in Morocco; Reports of a similar ‘split’ at the Berkeley Barb in California...

it67 Nov 6 - 20 1969: ”The Original and Only International Times....” Post-take over attempt issue - editorials.../ “To Be Attacked By The Enemy is Not A Bad Thing”; Launch of Middle Earth Records; John & Yoko Wedding Album full page ad...page of album reviews including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Love, Led Zeppelin, It's a Beautiful Day, Mighty Baby and Juicy Lucy; full page ads for Quintessence, Middle Earth Records, Traffic, John & Yoko Wedding Album. Half page ads for Doors and Love, and Terry Reid.

Words: “Editorial group...”

it68 Nov21 - Dec 4 1969: Interview with activist DC of The Black Panther Party; Marquis de Sade; report of biological/chemical weapons in relation to Vietnam War; People Not Psychiatry; Little Richard – ‘The Original Hippie’; Led Zeppelin; Biafra –A Blueprint by Emeka Ojukwu, General of the People’s Party; Great Grass Famine by Abbie Hoffman; round up of police actions against "the underground" entitled Pig-Sty Rumbles - names police and particular stations that were causing particular problems - including the newly formed Special Patrol Group; "When The Christening Had To Stop" - on compulsory sterilisation; YELL! - a page devoted to skinheads. 24pp

it69 Dec 5 - 17 1969: ‘Diversion & Subversion’, IT Busted for Gay contact ads; the police raid on the IT offices earlier that year and conspiracy charges brought against the publishers and three directors. The raid concerned the 'males' ad column in the small ads page, which was dropped soon after the police raid. There is a separate front page item about a police raid on the Student Advisory Centre and also mentions that 'Student' publisher Richard Branson was charged under the Obscene Publications Act and the VD Act of 1889.Vienna – Aktionist Otto Muehl; lots from Manchester scenes; S E London squatters; Ten Years After; Atomic Rooster; Meher Baba ; Black Country Blues; Stackwaddy

Mick Farren returns to music section...

it70 Dec 18 - 1969: IT game; Black Panthers; “This issue is the last of the 1960's - the dream has already tarnished, the breadheads are in the building and it's all downhill from hereon - this issue contains:
The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius cartoon strip by; A full page poem by Michael Horovitz; An interview with Marty Feldman; An attack on Germaine Greer; music quotes from past Its; the introduction of a ‘fashion’ /clothes page with Angie Bowie modelling....’Yell’- the skinhead page; picture of Warhol superstar Candy Darling;

“Are you dropped out underground? A rabid acid Marxist? Or a violently berserk revolutionary? In IT 77, Guest Editor Richard Neville will draw a map of the movement – a pompous attempt to analyze the often bizarre relationships (personal or ideological) within the Alternative. Send your views, definitions or propaganda pieces to IT now.”

it78 April 24 - May 7 1970: Civil War in Northern Ireland; news on the Kray twins; news from America including the Chicago conspiracy trial, Black Panthers being persecuted, The Weathermen and Women’s Liberation; Race riots; The Gnomes (post psychedelic Provo -type phenomena in Amsterdam (lots on this city which IT nominated the 'head' city of Europe); Australia; San Francisco, the early days of the eco movement; Touch & Taste Cinema; Real Time Television, songs of the Revolution, Living Theatre, reviews of Brinsley Schwartz; Spooky Tooth, Van Morrison, The Doors, The Stooges; Miles reviews Incredible String Band, interview with Elton John; Living Theatre Declaration; New Left Crib Sheet; Miles v Gary Snyder on eco-urbanism; Black Dwarf; Scenario for The Future – Yippie Land manifesto from Scenario of the Revolution by Jerry Rubin.

“In today’s world, no-one is an innocent, no-one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order – that of the ruling classes and the exploiting forces.”

“IT is now in the process of moving offices. The licence to print IT has been withdrawn from Knullar Ltd. And transferred to Meep Comix Ltd which means the process of transferring the paper into the hands of the staff has finally been completed.....”

“This is the hundredth issue of IT and has proved too great a temptation not to include some kind of editorial. IT was born just prior to the flower-power hippie explosion of 1967; followed the community through the desperate aftermath of speed, exploitation and protest marches........................”

it111 Aug 26 - Sep 9 1971: Angry Politics "Photos of The Support Oz Magazine Demo with John Lennon"; "Missions of The Apocalypse-Altamont/Dylan/Hendrix"; William Blake and the Druids; reviews of The Doors, Mothers of Invention, Byrds; ad for God Save Oz

it115 Oct 21 - Nov 7 1971: Imagine advert; Allen Ginsberg on ‘the new Dylan’; The Opium Trail of South East Asia; Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz pt3; Letter from a Venice Sister; From Frank Zappa: “To all Warner / Reprise avant-garde executives who might have something to do with the merchandizing of Mothers of Invention product.” Plus interview with Zappa; Mick Farren arrested twice-pic; letter from the British Order of Druids; review of AC/DC by Heathcote Williams** Pictures from Bangla Desh concert;

it118 Dec 2 - 16 1971: Letter to the Green Berets from the IRA; Jake Prescott & Ian Purdie trial and associated arrests; Yorkshire’s underground paper Styng busted; Friends magazine declared obscene; demonstration at a Playboy exhibition at the Royal College of Art with The Living Theatre; ‘Wanna Have A Free Rock Festival?’ advert; Interview re. Northern Ireland with Ronan O’ Rahilly; Scotland pre-history; benefit for the Irish people at the Roundhouse with Roy Harper and Brinsley Schwartz; excerpts from Whole Earth Catalogue; Fanny at the Rainbow

it124 Feb 24 - March 9 1972: ‘The Last Issue’ – “There are now four radical tabloid newspapers fighting for your custom....We’ve decided to make a change. To move away from the tabloid format and start life again as a magazine...IT has always attempted to represent the central body of alternative opinion and interests. The radical politics of that alternative are dealt with adequately elsewhereand although we shall continue to look at the political side of our society. IT will be focussing mainly on its general culture...;

'Give Ireland Back To The Irish' – McCartney and Wings; Baader-Meinhof; Nasty Tales obscenity trial with a picture of the nasty four; Home Secretary in US real-estate fraud; The Best... of Flower Power; Lanchester Arts Festival; Gay Power, The Legend Of Robin Hood by Joy Farren; A J Weberman says ‘sorry’ to Dylan; Ads for MC5 and The Pink Fairies at The Seymour Hall in London. Rock Liberation by Mick Farren; Record Reviews- Ry Cooder, Jerry Garcia, Nilsson. Film reviews - Roller Derby, Modern Times; Book reviews include "Moonchild" by Aleister Crowley, "The Alley God" by Philip Jose Farmer.

it126 March 24 1972: John Hurford (OZ) Cover Artwork (one of two versions, one blue/green; one red/orange and yellow); Bob Dylan ' How Does It Feel ?’- Part 2 Of The IT Dylan Biography; Home Secretary Maudling In US Real Estate Fraud ; Fabulous Freak Brothers; Rock Liberation ( It Ain't Just Money ) By Mick Farren; Ecology ' Death Of An Ocean' (The Irish Sea Is Dying); . Vampires ( Walk Among Us ) In Myth And Legend By Joy Farren; The Pyramids.

it131 June 1 1972: Schoolkids IT? Ironically published from OZ office with features on Schools Action Union; Bob Dylan & The Band incognito in English pub; George Wallace tribute: Manchurian candidate; Orkneys; Festivals: Turdpower in the Quagmire; Miss Underworld;

it155 May 31 - June 14 1973: Letter from John Lennon; ‘The Best Article on Reggae..’; ‘Hepatitis and Other stories’ – Scenes from a hippie travelogue; OZ – RIP: ‘Much more than another hippie rag’; Lord Lampton; New York; Jamaica

Issue 164 concludes Volume 1 of IT...there was no production for six months until erstwhile editor Roger Hutchinson received an invitation to visit Apple Records, where he was invited to receive a cheque for £1000 at the instigation of John Lennon – a long subscriber to IT who had noticed the absence of issues in late 1973...
This money formed the basis for an ambitious re-launch; publishing monthly with strongly combined resources from other extinct alternative titles.

it Vol 3 No 1 / Maya 5; June 1975: ”it’s back: In 10 years of the battle for an alternative society many standards lie amongst the carnage – Gandalf’ Garden, UFO, Frendz, Implosions, Middle Earth, Arts Lab, White Panther Party, Ceres, Apple, Biba’s, Lord Kitchener’s valet. When Time Out rang the other day to ask why we were bringing out IT Steve said: ‘We found this banner lying on the battlefield. Nobody else was carrying it and waving it about. The last IT appeared in August 1974. Maya - Free Nation News appeared in September 1974 and has, since then, been the only national underground paper. After much consultation it was decided that IT- the first and undoubtedly the greatest British alternative paper - should not be allowed to die. Maya has gladly given IT pride of place on our masthead. In future issues the Maya content of the paper will decrease. It is our intention that IT shall be a sheet paper. We are not interested in an intellectual wank for Hampstead.”

it Vol 3 No 3 Sep 1975: Watchfield Festival – 4th People’s Free Festival; Free supplement: Land for The People: A Manifesto - 8pp devoted to Land Use; Agriculture; reprint of the first Digger Manifesto and its potential for current alternative values and lifestyle;

A slim and tentative re-launch of IT - ten years after it was first published. These first issues of '76 are later self-referenced in a later editorial as "...revived, embarrasingly, as some faked-up museum throwback."Published by Azemoff Bakeries; Editors: Reva Brown / Murray Allan / Simon Stable

it 1976; # 4: ‘Heroin Horror’; Triads In Amsterdam; Czech Mates- The full story & manifesto of The Plastic People of the Universe; Arabella Melville & Colin Johnson – Sex magazine Libertine; Interview with Stiff Records founder Dave Robinson; Release Graphics by It artist John Meaker; Sniffing Glue; Kursaal Flyers; The first emergence of Biff comic strip. Biff drawn by Chris Garratt and written by Mick Kidd began in IT to later become a regular feature of The Guardian, their work a vividly jargonistic, sociology-speak bathos; typifying the alternative hipness of the 60’s & 70’s - while puncturing the superimposed pomposity of lumpy 1940/50’s illustrations...)

“The anti-it issue. People go – ‘Oh, it? It’s still going is it?’ They’re wrong: it isn’t. We could say it’s bigger and better, but your mind’s probably shrunk. It is becoming the necessary paper. Each page comes from some scene that’s going on now, all the news that doesn’t fit, the bits in between, the stuff that’s coming through the cracks in the walls...don’t want to sound apocalyptic by rote, but you will, as they say, see. This is not so boring and predictable as to be an ‘alternative’ paper smelling of the sixties – there is no alternative. Half of it disagrees with the other half, at least, if not itself. It was always a bad paper that sometimes served its purpose as a hippy rag. Then it was recently revived, embarrassingly, as some faked-up museum throwback to those days. Then we took it over, callously using the name of it. ‘When the mode of the music changes’, it said originally, ‘the walls of the city shake.’ Well the walls have been replaced, the sky lowers on sky rise buildings, and the mode of the music has settled into comfortable soft rock, such as The Eagles, slagged out and professional, with crystal clear production to ping in the foggy ears of hash smokers sitting comfortably, ‘laid back’. Everybody’s just as bored, scared and unoriginal as they ever were – perhaps more so. Punk is trying to burn through it and all the slickness, but could be easily sabotaged by ‘Very punk, very Joan Sanderson’ type stuff. How can we ever change anything if we cultivate stupidity? – The transcendental moron, the punk moron, the fashionable moron, the cool moron. We could be offensive, but you wouldn’t give a shit when you’ve bought your nice new stereo...The only sign of life is an occasional exuberance shown in cruelty, and atoned for by sentimentality, all blanketed over by an incredible self-absorbed apathy which stops you from thinking, emotion or suicide. And you probably can’t even understand the words we’re using, let alone apply it to yourself, and as for ourselves this applies also, and all we ever need is a little love and understanding. But how do we get there, how well, and how often? What can one ever do? Going down the pub?”

it Vol 1977 # 11 July: Rat Licks Baby's Face Robert Shea, co-author of The Illuminatus – Mysticism Demystified; Piggy Bankrupt - A disillusioned cop gives gives the fact about dangerous discontent in the force; Cannabis reformers invade Parliament; The Acid Bust scandal; Music- The Ramones, Bowie. Hawkwind, Gong, Stonehenge; The Gemstone File part V1; Sitz-Mitz – IT’s fun and fashion correspondent..; The Golden Jungbilee – The fiftieth anniversary of Jung’s death celebrated at the centre of the world; Sybarite Among the Shadows – A meeting between Aleister Crowley and Adous Huxley in pre-war Berlin where Huxley first turns on to mescalin, as told by Crowley’s acoloyte Victor Neuberg;
A Midsummer High in Mags and Rags - magazines including The Fanatic reviewed, including a brief history of the The Fanatic; Denis the Dope strip; Theatre notes inc. The Rocky Horror show plus John Meaker on the Kwakiuli Indians in Vanvouver; Keith Richards; CLAP projects listed; David Solomon, academic and writer, a profile of the man remanded without bail re. Operation Julie acid prosecutions; Home Grown magazine – an acerbic review...; ‘IT’ girl by John Meaker; Eddie Woods to edit Libertine sex mag..

it Vol 4 #10 Aug: Cocaine – “..the trade in nose-dust is no longer run by pirates, but by the military juntas who survive on the profits.” Bob Dylan. Highway ’78 revisited - a review of Zimmermania from the 1967 Albert Hall catastrophe to the weird scenes at Blackbushe (festival) concentration camp by Steve Abrams; Radio Caroline; postcard from Poland; the amazing shrinking chimps; German militarism in South America; “I thought Home was an ex-Prime Minister until I discovered Squatting.”; travel notes

it Vol 5 #4: “Hello. This it was produced in a back room somewhere in London. Please note another change of address. The box number gives IT an everlasting address, while IT sleeps in bus shelters....” ‘Out Demons Out!’: Britain In Ireland - a 2page special; “Loose Change – A curious tour of Amsterdam from Drugs To William Burroughs with a few Blowjobs thrown in for laughs.” by Eddie Woods; Amsterdam; Albania; Lysergic Love Criminals, Operation Julie: Acid Terrorists appeal; Earth In cosmic line-up; Spectacles –Larry Law..

it Vol 5 #6: Frivolous Summer Issue 1980 (30p UK; Fl 2 Nederland)
“IT has been banned by its very own distributor – dear old PDC, the organisation that can’t go wrong!!! The people who work at PDC say IT is “sexist, misogynist, anti-gay, pornographic and ageist”. Our thanks to: the hundreds of people who’ve written in & all the groups & individuals who’ve supported us, especially Ins & Outs (Amsterdam); ZN Records (New York); The Anarcho Utopian Mystics who gave us £30, Gay Pride who said we weren’t ‘anti-gay’, Beril & the Perils who said they liked us, and many more who probably wouldn’t want to be mentioned, ‘cos they’re shy. IT will continue to distribute itself & needs all the help it can get..............PS: The Socialist Worker Party recently accused Dylan of “Quietism”.
Allen Ginsberg on David Solomon; American Indian Ethnocide; Baader Meinhof; ‘The Case of the Missing Stream of Consciousness – Biff / Mick Kidd; Cannabis conference – Amsterdam; Rt. Hon. William Whitelaw ‘speaks’ out; Simon Vinkenoog – Dutch Mobs; World Ethnocide: Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, USA, Panama, Colombia, Australia, Canada, Chile...; Amsterdam: A Memoir of the Seventies by Hans Plomp; Letter from a Prisoner in the Corridor of Death by Ulrike Meinhof; Mel clay in SanFrancisco; Ballad of the Gone Maclise – tribute poem by Ira Cohen to founder of Velvet Underground and contributor to IT; Savoy Books, Manchester by Andrew Darlington; Crass and Poison Girls lyrics; *Printed paper and plastic review – “New and amazing things are appearing from unknown and unexpected addresses. A refreshing change – experiment returns to brighten our lives and end the soulless dictatorship of the recycled slogan.”

it Sep 1990: ‘Full colour glide issue’: featuring full text of Alan Moore’s PERIOD INFORMATION DOUBLING interview with Chris Brook after the screening of the film Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid in his Northampton living room.

In Autumn 1995 the monthly glossy Internet magazine publishes an interview with Nick Rosen featuring his new Internet ‘e-zine’ International Times, published by Intervid. IT, through last editor and publisher, Chris Brook, takes legal advice with reference to Rosen's claim to 'own' the internet domain name, as a 'former editor' of the paper. Rosen worked with Max Handley and Chris Sanders on the 6th edition of Alternative London (Otherwise Press,1982) but was never associated with International Times. Threatened with proceedings against injunctive relief and 'passing off', he claims a 'mistake' was made and the site is withdrawn - shortly after a phone call to Brook suggesting a potentially lucrative merger is rebuffed. After this IT decides to accept the support and web hosting of Intermedia.co.uk who run an alternative sub-site, pHreak, devoted to alternative lifestyle and information. Different cyber networks and publishing are explored, leading eventually to IT's own domain being established in 1999: